How would I find the deriviative of:

Question

(x^3/3) + (x^2/2) +x

Answer 1

The derivative of xⁿ can be found using the power rule:
dxⁿ/dx = nx^n-1
The derivative of a polynomial is the sum of the derivative of each of the terms.
For example,
d(x⁵+x⁴)/dx = 5x⁴+4x³